Lily sat in the corner of the empty common room. Seventh year had been tough for her. She was getting good grades and had amazing friends; anyone would think she would be happy. However, underneath the surface, there were other things going on; like the fact that everyone called her a mudblood, or a bookworm, or a geek. And then there was Potter. It was horrible to consistently be the one tortured by his cruel jokes. Just that day he had set one of her favorite books on fire in front of the whole school. But besides that, she couldn't help but thinking how cute his smile was or how genuinely sorry he seemed when he saw Lily run, crying, into the girl's lavatories. Just thinking of it made it even more humiliating, and she felt tears well up in her brilliant green eyes. She didn't even notice the soft arguing voices coming down from the boys' dormitories.
"Prongs, you're being stupid." Said a voice apparently coming from nowhere.
"Padfoot you've got to admit, it was pretty harsh." Said another equally invisible voice.
"Harsh? Come on prongsie; don't soften up on me now. This is Lily Evans we're talking about! You're the one who came up with the idea, so don't get mad at me!" At the mention of her name Lily looked up, and stopped sobbing.
She knew that voice. That was the voice of Sirius Black and the other's Potter's.
"Potter?"
"Oh crap." James said softly.
"I thought you said the common room was empty!" Snapped Sirius.
"Well, I must have overlooked Lily." James said, a note of guilt in his voice.
"I didn't think that was possible James." Lily heard Sirius say before she finally went over.
"What the…" She mumbled.
She was confused. And for a good reason, for where the voices were coming from there was nothing but air. She reached out, and to her surprise, she felt something cool and soft. Lily pulled it. A silvery cloak fell into her hands, and in what she had thought was thin air, she saw two boys. Sirius Black and James Potter.
"You have an invisibility cloak?" She asked exasperatedly.
"Yup." Sirius said, obviously bored.
"So this is how you always play tricks without getting in trouble" she said softly.
"Uh-huh. Listen Lily, we were sort of going somewhere so if you could continue the rant about responsibility and respect later we'd appreciate it." James said, also bored at this point.
"But where could you two possibly be going at this time of night?" Lily asked tiredly.
"We were going to the hospital wing to check on Remus." Sirius answered quickly.
"Why is Remus in the hospital wing?" Now she was suspicious, they never really cared if any of the others got sick.
"He…um…got in a fight…with a wild…dog!" James yelled excitedly, as if getting a question right for the first time.
"Yes fine then. Go on. But be back soon alright?" Lily was so confused.
'How could I possibly think that Potter was cute?' She asked herself as she walked up the stairs to her dorm. She did hear James say he thought it was harsh, though she admittedly also heard Sirius say that it was his idea.
"Boys are so complicated!" she said to herself as she flung onto her soft, cushion-y bed.
"Boy troubles Lils?" asked Amber from the other side of the room.
Amber was part of their little trio. The trio consisted of her, Alexis Niles, And Amber Blue. Amber, who was a gossip at heart, always asked Lily this whenever she even attempted to say the word boy.
"Boy troubles so complex, even you wouldn't be able to figure it out Amber." Lily said as she lay down with her eyes closed.
"I'm going down to the common room 'kay Amber?"
"Whatever Lils"
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"Lily?" asked a voice coming from somewhere next to her.
"Mmmmmm." She said, annoyed.
"Lily, you're going to be late for breakfast. It's already 7:15."
"Go 'way, sleeping." Lily said impatiently.
All the sudden out of nowhere she felt a soft pressure on her lips. Immediately Lily jolted up out of her comfortable position.
"JAMES HAROLD POTTER!!!" She screeched.
"Yes Lily?" James said innocently.
"You…I…we…but… You'll pay Potter." Lily noticed for the first time that they were definitely not in the girls' dorms; they were in the common room.
Lily had fallen asleep the night before, writing in her diary. She looked around and saw that most of the spectators were gone but one Sirius Black remained. He seemed quite interested in the spiral-bound notebook that was sitting in his lap. Sirius was staring at it with such fascination that Lily was surprised his eyes didn't pop out.
"What on earth is so interesting in that book, Black?" Sirius looked up and blushed almost immediately.
"The more important question here is what on earth are you wearing Evans?" Lily looked down and saw that she was wearing polka-dotted underpants and a camisole tank top.
"I uh… Never you mind, what are you reading?" She was getting impatient now.
"A book." Sirius said honestly.
"Very good Sirius." Remus said coming in through the portrait hole.
As soon as he saw Lily he blushed a crimson red and sat down.
"Hi Lily," Remus said to the floor.
"I have to go." Sirius said as he shot up from the couch he was sitting on.
"I'll come!" shouted Remus, running after him, apparently wanting to get out of the presence of a girl in underwear.
"My god." Lily mumbled walking off to go get changed trying to grasp the fact that James Harold Potter had kissed her, and she had liked it.
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"Mate!" Sirius shouted down the long hallway leading to the Great Hall.
"What?" James said quite moodily.
"Mate, our girl problems are over." Sirius said excitedly.
"Why's that?" James asked, now interested.
"Because I've got Lily's diary."